"Police call" vote: How did you like "Until midnight"?

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At the "police call" area: There is seldom so much movement in an interrogation thriller.

Photo: Hendrik Heiden / Provobis / BR

In the end he talked incessantly.

The woman murderer gave the young superintendent Elisabeth "Bessie" Eyckhoff (Verena Altenberger) and retired detective Josef Murnauer (Michael Roll) information about his desires and deeds, at the end of the day it was dawn.

The murderer concluded with the words: "You were the only two people who listened to me, thank you."

This "police call" was the chronology of a dangerous approach. Investigator Eyckhoff already had the certainty at the beginning that her counterpart in the interrogation room was the perpetrator, but she had to tease a judicial confession out of him through skillful manipulations in the shortest possible time.

In our review we wrote: »Although the› police call ‹plays in almost real time primarily on the homicide squad, it moves rapidly through space and time.

Screenwriter Tobias Kniebe shows the deeds in brief flashbacks;

He lets half the Munich police apparatus turn the wheel so that the deadlock can be resolved: interrogation rooms are changed, furniture moved, competencies redistributed, and the old Murnau man is hurriedly flown in by helicopter through the gloomy Munich night.

So much bird's eye view, so much machine noise, so much movement is seldom in an interrogation thriller.

Director Dominik Graf staged it in an impressively agile way. "

We gave 8 out of 10 points.

How did you like the crime thriller?

From October Verena Altenberger will be in front of the camera for another Munich "police call";

Two more episodes are planned for 2022.

Maybe Altenberger's chief commissioner Eyckhoff will finally get permanent colleagues after all the change of turf.

So far, it has always determined in a new setting and has to reinvent itself every time.

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